Nathaniel Seer
The Killing Task
Label: Higher Step Records)

Indiana’s singer/songwriter scene is really quite something considering the locale. Nathaniel Seer’s new disc, The Killing Task, came to us in the same package with Sam Lowry’s Songs of My Enemy, at a time when we just couldn’t get enough Murder by Death. But at the time, was so much more Jeff Buckley-fronted Pedro the Lion meets Iron & Wine than the other two Indyians, and we just couldn’t get into it in our positive, upbeat state of mind.

What we needed was to enter a super low emotional state of being, and that my friends, just takes time. You can’t force melancholy, you know?

But fortunately, we eventually found solace in the despair necessary to enjoy these agonizingly intricate tracks. They are in fact, quite beautiful and did a superb job reinforcing our depression. Apathy gave way to “repeat” on our iPod, and soon we’re cradling our knees in a ball on the floor - swaying in time to the guitar downstroke on beats 2 and 4.

Nathaniel Seer - “Burlesque Revelations” (mp3)
Nathaniel Seer - “Prize Fighter Blues” (mp3)